Fling Austin

May 25, 2018 With this killer view of Lake Austin, many homeowners might have sodded a lawn, plunked a few pots of annuals around the pool, and called it done. But Kirk Walden, whose garden was the final stop on the recent Austin Garden Bloggers Fling tour (I photographed it ...

May 11, 2018 For 11 years I’ve traveled to cities around North America to attend Garden Bloggers Fling, and I’ve helped organize two Flings held in Austin — in and again last weekend. Normally I take hundreds of pictures of the gardens I visit. (Go to Categories in my sidebar ...

May 03, 2018 For two years now, my fellow bloggers Diana Kirby and Laura Wills and I have been planning a big event for garden bloggers called Garden Bloggers Fling. This weekend is when it finally happens — rain or shine! Garden Bloggers Fling is 3-1/2 days of private and ...

December 15, 2017 Austin is head over heels in love with our new Central Library, a marvelous civic structure by Lake|Flato that is much more than a library. It’s a community space for all of Austin in a prime location on Cesar Chavez Street near Austin City Hall and across ...

October 17, 2017 Do you own or do marketing for a garden-related business? Would you like for garden bloggers — i.e., social media influencers — from across the U.S., Canada, and beyond to know about your products? I’m on the planning committee for Garden Bloggers Fling, an annual 3-day meetup ...

April 02, 2009 Gulf Coast penstemon ( Penstemon tenuis) One year ago this week, thirty-seven garden bloggers from across the U.S. were converging on Austin for a first national meet-up we dubbed Garden Bloggers Spring Fling. ‘Bath’s Pink’ dianthus ( Dianthus gratianopolitans ‘Bath’s Pink’) The first guest I met was ...

July 02, 2008 Lynsey, Marica, Zophia, Pam, and MSS anticipating fish tacos at Hula Hut An international bloggers meet-up of sorts has sprung from the Garden Bloggers Spring Fling last April. Lynsey Gedye, a Wellington, New Zealand, blogger at Tea Garden (and 3 or 4 other blogs) posted about the ...

April 26, 2008 Susan Harris of Garden Rant and Sustainable Gardening and Austinite MSS of Zanthan Gardens (with Mr. Peeps) at the Garden Bloggers Spring Fling—the first annual garden bloggers convention—a few weeks ago Garden bloggers who attended the 2008 Garden Bloggers Spring Fling, held here in Austin on April ...

April 26, 2008 Susan Harris of Garden Rant and Sustainable Gardening and Austinite MSS of Zanthan Gardens (with Mr. Peeps) at the Garden Bloggers Spring Fling—the first annual garden bloggers convention—a few weeks ago Garden bloggers who attended the 2008 Garden Bloggers Spring Fling, held here in Austin on April ...

April 23, 2008 If you haven’t been paying attention, you may have missed the memo about Austin garden bloggers taking over the world, or at least the blogosphere. Austin booster that I am, even I have been surprised by the number of garden blogs popping up left and right in ...

April 17, 2008 ‘Belinda’s Dream’ rose I promised Dee of Red Dirt Ramblings that I’d provide the recipe for the bean dip I served at the Spring Fling happy hour, but I’ve kept forgetting to do it. Sorry, Dee! Here it is. It’s very easy to make, I always get ...

April 13, 2008 On Sunday after the Garden Bloggers Spring Fling, the out-of-towners who stayed an extra day joined some of the Austin garden bloggers for a personal tour of herbal-cookbook author Lucinda Hutson’s garden. The other Spring Flingers may remember Lucinda from the happy hour at my house on ...

April 13, 2008 On Sunday after the Garden Bloggers Spring Fling, the out-of-towners who stayed an extra day joined some of the Austin garden bloggers for a personal tour of herbal-cookbook author Lucinda Hutson’s garden. The other Spring Flingers may remember Lucinda from the happy hour at my house on ...

April 08, 2008The Spring Fling Wrap-Up post is up. We give you links to every post-Fling post that we could find. As more are being written every day—after all, 37 garden bloggers can write a lot of posts, each with a different perspective—be sure to check back regularly at the ...

April 08, 2008The Spring Fling Wrap-Up post is up. We give you links to every post-Fling post that we could find. As more are being written every day—after all, 37 garden bloggers can write a lot of posts, each with a different perspective—be sure to check back regularly at the ...

April 07, 2008 Normally we garden bloggers “sell” our posts with photos of flowers. Post-Spring Fling, I think it will be people pics that arrest the skimming reader. The Garden Bloggers Spring Fling, held last Saturday right here in Austin, yielded new and renewed friendships, good conversation, good eats, and ...